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by nxobject 1y ago
*sorry, I meant "creditors".
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by nxobject 1y ago
Looks like Thailand's no longer in a rush to get a "final" tariff deal, even if we're stuck at a 19% rate. (I think our flag carrier might be refreshing its fleet exclusively with Boeing to sweeten the deal.)
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by nxobject 1y ago
To be fair, "[substantial] doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern", at least for audited statements, is accounting jargon with a limited and technical definition. Notably, it doesn't take into acco
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by nxobject 1y ago
If LLM coverage is going to be as important as documentation for future API adoption, it’d better be good, sadly…
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by nxobject 1y ago
Sadly, this registry might be out of date again: entry #43 indicates it is from the now-dismantled Living Computer Museum + Labs. https://www.apple1registry.com/en/43.html
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by nxobject 1y ago
There's the market out there for a consultancy that will fine-tune an LLM for your unique platform, stack, and coding considerations of choice – especially with proprietary platforms. (IBM's probably doing it right now for their l
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Beating Caves of Qud as a Steaming Vent [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
To give them more credit, their operations seamlessly transitioned to (subscriber-free) radio as well, without losing subscribers: > In the 1920s, the company was granted the right to establish the first radio broadcasting station in B
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by nxobject 1y ago
I look forward to waiting a decade and seeing what MCP ends up reinventing.
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by nxobject 1y ago
"Racing the scanline"?
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by nxobject 1y ago
Knowing nothing about how survival/durability testing is done in VLSI: how did you do the empirical tests? For example, I know that thermal samples for the Pentium 5-era Xeon (Jayhawk) were produced, but I'd always wondered Intel
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by nxobject 1y ago
Was your normal breakfast spot subject to AB 1228 regulations?
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion By "minimum", do you mean "statutory minimum"? I'm n
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by nxobject 1y ago
By "PhD", do they mean "overconfident first-year grad student"?
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by nxobject 1y ago
No Yap score this time?
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by nxobject 1y ago
They do have the psychological cachet of Apple though – if Apple is the reasonably polished, general-purpose consumer device company to the average punter, OpenAI has a reputation of being the "consumer AI" company to the average
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Places that are exempt from these considerations continue to make successful use of it. How so? Solving more progressive matrices?
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by nxobject 1y ago
> The Japanese auto manufacturers moved their high-volume, low-margin assembly to the US and succeeded. They started by importing nearly every component and then steadily replaced them with locally-built components. Ironically, Trump&#x2
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Fallout's Memory Model [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Only Apple could make a classy ornament for such a tacky gilded-baroque office...
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by nxobject 1y ago
I think we're so far down the discussion thread, that we've forgotten that we're skeptical about whether Apple will be held accountable to their American investment promises...
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by nxobject 1y ago
Is the announcement implying that "mainline" GPT-5 is now a reasoning model? > gpt-5: Designed for logic and multi-step tasks.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Conversely, the Soviet Union took the PDP-11 ISA to its limits... including home computers with framebuffers and programmable calculators.
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by nxobject 1y ago
In defense of OP (which is something coming from a natural skeptic like me), Apple does mention which companies they're investing in -- which is light years ahead of the usual meaningless "we're going to invest $DOLLAR_AMOU
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by nxobject 1y ago
Re: Apple Symbols – the symbols aren't _too_ anachronistic: the font dates from Panther (10.3), which ran on all New World Macs (IIRC) – and indeed the B&W Power Mac G3 did have ADB (the "branch" icon at location (2, 2)),
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by nxobject 1y ago
To be slightly flip, we could say that the Lisp Machine CISC-supports-language full stack design philosophy lives on in how massive M-series reorder buffers and ILP supports JavaScriptCore.
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by nxobject 1y ago
_Especially_ given the goal of a world model using a rasters-only frame-by-frame approach. Holy shit.
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by nxobject 1y ago
It's convenient to be able to attribute success to things only OpenAI could've done with the combo of their early start and VC money – licensing content, hiring subject matter experts, etc. Essentially the "soft" stuff t
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by nxobject 1y ago
> I feel like I've seen and heard more of the opposite: The trend is to avoiding anything that might make someone feel blame for arriving in their situation. > I've heard countless people explain to me that dieting doesn&#x2
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by nxobject 1y ago
Computer science's favorite move: we've reached the limits of a scaling law meant to benefit single-threaded processes, so let's go parallel...

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